Massachusetts: We want to meet with MIT subway-hacking students

State transit authority says it’s reviewing the Defcon presentation prepared by three students it sued, and wants to meet with them before deciding whether to continue with a federal lawsuit.

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Microsoft to seek credit for finding vulnerabilities

Microsoft says it wants credit when it reports security flaws to third-party vendors.

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Black Hat a sure bet to be big, bold in Vegas

From a mock trial in “Hacker Court” to presentations titled “Bad Sushi” and “Satan is on My Friends List,” security conference promises to be provocative.

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Lock picking with a credit card, a photocopier, and some luck

Lock-picking experts show how to replicate a key to a high-security Medeco lock with a credit card at the Defcon hacker conference.

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MySQL: Back to Its Roots via Sun

Six months after being acquired by Sun, MySQL founders explain what’s going on.

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Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux?

Linux Foundation promises a quantum leap forward is coming for Linux standards.

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eBay Q2 Profits Up 22 Percent

UPDATED: Amid economic uncertainties, e-commerce giant beats analysts’ consensus.

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A Health Care App to Tackle Disasters

A new software tool is designed to help medical service providers more effectively handle dire incidents affecting children.

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New VM Templates Leave Oracle's Drawing Board

All-in-one templates for virtual machines may make it easy to set up and run Oracle environments, but will anyone bite?

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IBM Unveils Proactive E-Discovery Solution

Why wait until you face a lawsuit, then pay through the nose for an e-discovery solution you’ll only use once or twice?

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